Open Worlds VMRL 2.0 Editor and Viewer
Description

OpenWorlds is an add-on tool for Visual Smalltalk 3.1, capable to build, animate and visualize
VMRL 2.0 interactive 2D/3D scenes. For rendering the graphics a complete API to the Open Graphics Libraries 1.1 (OpenGL) has been  implemented.

It's many target purposes are as follows:

    Maps (e.g. dependencies of a company)
    Simulations (e.g. material flows)
    Manufacturing Processes (e.g. expert systems)
    WWW (e.g. web pages of an architecture agency)
    Visualizer (e.g. visualization interface of a tools catalog).

Files

This distribution includes the following files:
 
Worlds\*.wrl Subdirectory including several sample VMRL script files and GIFs.
lib\
  OWBASWB1.sll
  OWBASWB1.sml		 Open Worlds basic library and source files
lib\
  OWBUIWB1.sll
  OWBUIWB1.sml		 Open Worlds builder library and source 
lib\
  OWWBSWB1.sll
  OWWBSWB1.sml		 Open Worlds Window Builder Pro support library and source
lib\ 
  Glu32.dll
  OW32.dll 
   ImageLib32.dll 
   OpenGL32.dll 		 OpenGL support DLLs
lib\
  OW.ini		 VS Service Manager install file
installOW.txt Installation notes
OWDoc\
  Relnotes.html		 HTML release notes and description of Open Worlds

Requirements

VS/VSE 3.1.2 for Win32s on Windows 95.    Pentium 133Mhz  with 24Mb memory.  Recommended color display setting exceeding 256 colors.

Installation

Installation instructions may be found in the installOW.txt file of the installation.

Unzip the archive to a subdirectory of your VS/VSE installation or to a new directory.  Ensure that your PATH  includes the lib directory path.   Launch Visual Smalltalk, open the Service Manager from the Transcript menu bar, open file lib\OW.ini from the Service Manager, then add it to the master file.  Once the  Service Manager is open select and install the item named "OpenWorlds Builder".  To launch the OpenWorlds Builder, select the menu item Smalltalk-OpenWorlds Builder from  the Transcript menu bar.

Examples

To test OpenWorlds, load world file Worlds\EntryTests.wrl by selecting File-Open from the OpenWorlds window.

Additional info

Posted on Compuserve in February 1997.  View the file Relnotes.html for a full report on the goodie.

Contact

Thomas Zwick
Primelweg 9
88662 Ueberlingen Germany
101527.457@compuserve.com

Links to:
The ObjectShare web site
VisualSmalltalk Product Support
ObjectShare's Online Documentation Site